A remarkable collection of photos has emerged of military life in Coventry around the First World War.

They were taken by Fred Charles “Percy” Hancox, a signaller and clerk for the 7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment.

The incredibly detailed pictures show firing practice in Radford, military parades, and soldiers returning from camp or relaxing after a march.

Fred was born in Liverpool in 1876 but by 1881 was living with his grandfather in Woodbine Cottage, in Church Road, Bubbenhall.

Aged 15 he was working as an assistant forester and in February 1901 he married Mabel Palmer, 20, of Harnall Lane, Hillfields, at St Mark’s Church, in Stoney Stanton Road.

Their first daughter Doris was born a month later followed by Winifred in 1904, but by 1911 it was just Fred and Doris living together in Bramble Street, Stoke.

Mabel was in hospital and Winifred was living with her maternal grandmother. Mabel died in 1913.

In 1914 Fred was employed by his uncle T Hancox, a carpenter in St Patrick’s Road.

Fred enlisted on July 1, 1914, aged 38, and was called up until August 4. He spent the war as a clerk for the 7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment in Coventry, after a three-month spell with the signallers.

He was demobbed on January 19, 1919, and was living at 7 Latham Road, Earlsdon.

He lived there until at least 1962 and died in 1966, aged 90, in Wolverhampton.